Hot news about new UK products is always widely read and is always of interest to the Model Rail Forum community. Bachmann and Hornby and others hold their press events all over the UK and they do limit entry to these events to members of the press with press passes. As Doug has said earlier Model Rail Forum has a journalistic licence with certain responsibilities that go with that. I cover certain events and it would be nice to expand the portfolio of press events covered.
Articles are a different subject area and are not journalistic and have a very long life. News is time limited. I would not be dispirated if published work is not perceived as being widely read. You just never know and you never know where it can lead and it does give the author something to add to their portfolio of published work. And it provides practice. And you also know that you will have absolutely no qualms about inviting your guests to view your work here.
It would seem reasonable to allow feature authors to provide a brief summary of themselves and their interests in a box at the bottom with a link to a website of their choosing as a reward for offering up an article appropriate to the theme of Model Rail Forum. This appears fair as long as the website is family viewing of course and is a pretty good incentive to get those articles published at Model Rail Forum. Doug would have to have the final say as editorial controller when vetting submitted articles and links.
This work could of course already be copyright work that you have published elsewhere and feel deserves a wider audience. And this set of circumstances is entirely different to posting in the forum where info is more transient.
Great articles and great news stories can have interesting consequences!
Happy modelling
Gary